٠٠:٠٢:١٦At least six people died and hundreds others got injured following clashes involving students and pro-government activists on Tuesday in Dhaka as protests against the government’s job quota system took place.
Footage shows protesters throwing rocks and pieces of wood at each other, as well as demonstrators assisting men who were injured after being hit. The video also features burned buses and police officers securing the area.
According to local media reports, similar protests took place in other cities in Bangladesh, and among the six people who were killed, three of them died due to bullet wounds.
It is also reported that approximately 500 people were injured following the protests across the country.
The protests, demanding reformation of the government's quota hiring system for jobs in the public sector, involved students from various institutions, including Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Dhaka Medical College, Eden Mohila College, Dhaka College, Badrunnesa Government Mohila College, Dhaka Nursing College, and others.
According to local media, protests are part of an ongoing simultaneous pension reform strike by public university teachers nationwide, demanding improvement in the academic situation, causing classes, examinations, and official work to halt.
Of the current 56 percent quota, 30 percent of all jobs in the public sector are reserved for the families of persons who participated in the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War. Another 10 percent are reserved for women, 10 percent for districts based on population, five percent for ethnic minorities and one percent for people with disabilities.
At least six dead, hundreds injured as students clash with pro-government activists in Dhaka over reform of quota system
At least six people died and hundreds others got injured following clashes involving students and pro-government activists on Tuesday in Dhaka as protests against the government’s job quota system took place.
Footage shows protesters throwing rocks and pieces of wood at each other, as well as demonstrators assisting men who were injured after being hit. The video also features burned buses and police officers securing the area.
According to local media reports, similar protests took place in other cities in Bangladesh, and among the six people who were killed, three of them died due to bullet wounds.
It is also reported that approximately 500 people were injured following the protests across the country.
The protests, demanding reformation of the government's quota hiring system for jobs in the public sector, involved students from various institutions, including Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Dhaka Medical College, Eden Mohila College, Dhaka College, Badrunnesa Government Mohila College, Dhaka Nursing College, and others.
According to local media, protests are part of an ongoing simultaneous pension reform strike by public university teachers nationwide, demanding improvement in the academic situation, causing classes, examinations, and official work to halt.
Of the current 56 percent quota, 30 percent of all jobs in the public sector are reserved for the families of persons who participated in the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War. Another 10 percent are reserved for women, 10 percent for districts based on population, five percent for ethnic minorities and one percent for people with disabilities.
At least six people died and hundreds others got injured following clashes involving students and pro-government activists on Tuesday in Dhaka as protests against the government’s job quota system took place.
Footage shows protesters throwing rocks and pieces of wood at each other, as well as demonstrators assisting men who were injured after being hit. The video also features burned buses and police officers securing the area.
According to local media reports, similar protests took place in other cities in Bangladesh, and among the six people who were killed, three of them died due to bullet wounds.
It is also reported that approximately 500 people were injured following the protests across the country.
The protests, demanding reformation of the government's quota hiring system for jobs in the public sector, involved students from various institutions, including Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Dhaka Medical College, Eden Mohila College, Dhaka College, Badrunnesa Government Mohila College, Dhaka Nursing College, and others.
According to local media, protests are part of an ongoing simultaneous pension reform strike by public university teachers nationwide, demanding improvement in the academic situation, causing classes, examinations, and official work to halt.
Of the current 56 percent quota, 30 percent of all jobs in the public sector are reserved for the families of persons who participated in the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War. Another 10 percent are reserved for women, 10 percent for districts based on population, five percent for ethnic minorities and one percent for people with disabilities.